New Trends In American Public Health History Writing(1990-2010)

In the 1950s,after the Second World War,with the establishment of Western Welfare Society,public health became the focus of Western society,and gradually attracted the attention of historians.With the opening of the new history and the enlightenment of the new cultural history,public health,an important field related to medical society,has been regarded as an important topic that can explain the dimension of human historical development,officially entered the mainstream vision of serious American history and was investigated.After a long period of development,until the 21st century around the formation of a new development trend.This paper constructs the development of American public health history in the new historiography and new cultural history from 1990 to 2010,Comb and analyze the new trend of the development of American public health history in the past two decades.At the same time,the rise of the study of public health history in the American historians since the 20th century and its specific performance and research results are retrospectively reviewed,Including classic authors,works and important publications.While paying attention to and investigating the major issues in leisure history,this paper takes the selection of historical materials,research perspectives and research methods as the path,This paper discusses how public health historians define health,reproduce health,interpret health and re-examine health in the grand history under the intersection of traditional historiography,new historiography and new cultural history.In the history of public health,behind this everyday issue is a broader look and reexamination of the center and general structure of society from the margins of historical research.Public health historiography relies on the idea support of the social history of medical care,which was born in the wave of new historiography,and reinterprets the process of modern American history,its transformation and even the process of global history from the perspective of health,which is completely on the edge of traditional vision.In addition to broadening the dimension of historical interpretation,American public health historiography has also demonstrated a typical American practice model in the western historiography since the 1950s.Therefore,the re-discussion of the research results of the history of public health in the United States is not only to investigate the specific application and practice of the history of public health in the field of historiography and the theory of new cultural history,More importantly,we may be able to use public health history as a window into the development and evolution of Western historiography from the second half of the 20th century to the early 21st century.